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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
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The Age of Improvement, 1783-1867 (Hardcover, 2nd edition)
Series: Silver Library
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The Age of Improvement has long established itself as a classic of
modern historical writing. Widely read and quoted it has had a
unique influence on teaching and research. This second edition
draws on the great volume of new research - produced by Lord Briggs
amongst others, since its original publication. The book stresses
both the underlying unity and the rich variety of the age, and
raises fundamental issues about a period of crucial change in
British history - industrialisation, war, constitutional change and
the attitudes of politicians towards it, political development,
and, not least, society and culture. In the background are the new
economic powers based on the development of a coal and iron
technology; in the foreground, new social and political problems
and new ways of tackling them. The author also discusses
perceptions of, and reactions to, changing circumstances, the
influence of religion and science on national life, and changing
styles in art and literature. The story ends, not with a full stop
but with a question mark. Could improvement be maintained? Could
balance and progress continue to be reconciled?
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